I don't know if you've been paying much attention to the fact that half of the government in the Netherlands has resigned in the last week, or that generals are stepping down, etc. All because they've been found to have been slightly negligent in the past--which lead to the Srebrenica massacre of 6,000 Muslim men and boys. I didn't even know what Srebrenica was, let alone that is was a huge tragedy, but allow me to make one point.

Here we have a tiny little "heathen" country where a person can go and buy legal sex and smoke some legal pot, your girlfriend can get an abortion, now you have the "right to die" if you are ill, and if you are a homosexual, you're in luck because you can get married to your partner. How much more heathen can you get? Not that homosexuality has anything to do with prostitution, abortion, suicide, or weed...but the point I am making is that to some peope, the Dutch are a pack of crazy sinners.

Now the point.

I can only imagine that if such an atrocity as the mass murdering of 6000 people happened by the accidental hand of Americans, the news would either not disclose it, the truth would be altered, or for some reason the 6000 people would be so faceless to us, that we wouldn't even care. And here is a country scorned for being so openenmindedly lenient to any number of "forbidden" things...apologizing with as much umph as it can. I don't care if there are people in the back rooms of Den Haag saying, "It will look sooo good to the people if you resign. Hey, let's resign in mass numbers to look better."

Who cares. It does look good. It looks like the leaders of a country, the size of maybe Georgia, feel bad. That the lives that were lost grieves them in some way, and I appreciate it.